Sophia Mitrokostas. Insider asked tattoo artists to share the designs they love to work on and the ones they don't really like inking. Mandala and blackwork tattoos are popular among artists. Tattoos with tiny text can get blurry with time.
Winged-eyeliner tattoos can age poorly, said one artist. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories. Sign up for Sidekick to get the best recs for smarter living. Loading Something is loading. Email address. Sign up for notifications from Insider!
Stay up to date with what you want to know. To show off my pretty cool body art. To express my love for something.
To express myself. To express my beliefs. American traditional. Black and grey. New school. Extremely bad. Very bad. Pen doodles.
Water transfer tattoos. Sharpie drawings. I want a few pops of color. The watercolor style is currently in vogue.
It's in extremely high demand by the most recent generation of tattoo enthusiasts, who seem to be looking for modern tattoo types to match the new millennium. It looks like what it sounds like, as if rendered with a brush dabbled in watery pastels.
However, looks can be deceiving, while it's easy to create this aesthetic when working with actual watercolors on paper or canvas, doing it with ink on the human body is no simple feat. Still, artists make all sorts of whimsical and poetic pieces using this innovative approach to tattooing. Tribal tattoos — i.
This style should actually be thought of as multiple styles or more so different traditions of tattooing from aboriginal communities all around the globe. These diverse and beautiful styles are frequently referred to under the umbrella term "tribal," but to the trained eye, Polynesian body art is distinctive from Marquesan or Maori tattoos, just like tattoos on Inupiaq matriarchs' faces are different from those found on Berber women.
Though these styles are all unique, they are somewhat similar— almost always done in black with elaborate patterns. Don't let the name fool you, new school isn't really all that new anymore. It rose to prominence in the weirdness that was the late '80s and early '90s, but lately it has waned in popularity. This is probably because it was very much a product of its time, featuring a highly animated aesthetic that takes after popular entertainment from that period in American history.
The style is cartoonish and wacky, featuring caricatures and other exaggerated figures. If you're the sort of person who likes their body art injected with the spirit of Ren and Stimpy, then this comic style is for you. See more New School tattoos. Neo Traditional Tattoo Style.
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